Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Open Access Journal: JANES - Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society

[n.b. The digital archive of JNES, long hosted at the Jewish Theological Seminary, is no longer accessible on their servers. Luckily, there seem to be several archived iterations at the Internet Archives's Wayback Machine. I have changed all the links below to a recently archived version. I have not checked all the pdfs of the articles, though my spot check gives me 100% success]

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.